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Aussie asset manager cops ASIC intervention

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
The corporate regulator has slapped licence conditions on an alternative asset manager, citing concerns over the corporate governance of the firm after the misappropriation of investors' funds by a former employee. Aurora Funds Management is now required ...

TAL to boost adviser underwriting knowledge

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
A new underwriting education initiative from TAL will help advisers and clients better understand the underwriting process. TAL launched the education initiative to increase transparency in the underwriting process, and said the initiative would provide ...

CBA to demerge CFS, mulls further CommInsure sell-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
Commonwealth Bank is demerging its wealth management business and undertaking a strategic review of its general insurance arm. Standing as a separately listed wealth management business, CFS Group will comprise Colonial First State, Colonial First State ...

Agricultural asset manager promotes new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
Growth Farms, the $440 million specialist agricultural asset manager, has launched a new trust-structure fund that will buy rent-generating agricultural properties. Its Australian Agricultural Lease Fund is looking for total investment up to $100 million ...

The future of advice fee structures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
To ensure the success of financial advice businesses in the post-Royal Commission world, financial advisers must separate planning and product advice fees, as well as benchmark both planning advice fees and portfolio performance. That is the view of ...

ASX on the lookout for new CFO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
A search is underway for a new chief financial officer at the Australian Securities Exchange after the market operator announced the retirement of its long-term CFO. Ramy Aziz' eight-year tenure as the ASX chief financial officer will come to an end ...

Equity Trustees appoints US executive, partners in Ireland

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
Equity Trustees has made two international moves. The first will see a US-based Australian executive enter an international role; the second will see it partner with an administrator to launching an Irish fund platform. In a bid to ease American fund ...

Former AMEX director joins wealth consultant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
An independent wealth management consultant appointed a former AMEX director and TAL business transformation manager to lead its Sydney office. Wendy Colaco joined QMV as the firm's new principal consultant to lead the Sydney office and provide senior ...

Global $221bn manager hires BlackRock exec for new Australian office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
A global investment manager headquarted in Zurich has appointed the head of wealth for BlackRock's local iShares business to lead an expansion into the Australian market. Alex Zaika will become managing director for Australia at GAM Investments ...

Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
A room full of finance professionals tackled tricky case studies at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Forum in Sydney yesterday afternoon. Technical services professionals from IOOF and BT Financial Group presented case studies based on two ...